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.TH WORMS 6 "May 20, 1985"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
worms  \-  animate worms on a display terminal
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/games/worms
[
.B \-field
] [
.B \-length
# ] [
.B \-number
# ] [
.B \-trail
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.ad b
Brian Horn (cithep!bdh) showed me a
.I TOPS-20
program on the DEC-2136 machine called
.IR WORM ,
and suggested that I write a similar program that would run under
.IR Unix .
I did, and no apologies.
.PP
.B \-field
makes a "field" for the worm(s) to eat;
.B \-trail
causes each worm to leave a trail behind it.  You can figure
out the rest by yourself.
.SH FILES
/etc/termcap
.SH AUTHOR
Eric P. Scott
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR Snails ,
by Karl Heuer
.SH BUGS
The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly
on a terminal that wraps at the right margin.
.PP
Terminal initialization is not performed.
